The Emotional Skills Assessment Process

Introduction

Executive’s emotional intelligence (EI), insight, and authority aptitudes have a clear connection to their particular execution. New research demonstrates that an executive 's passionate style drives other people 's inclinations and practices (Goleman, Boyatzis, and McKee, 2015). Only in recent years has there emerged a scientific model of the emotional mind that explains how so much of what we do can be emotionally driven. Individuals can be so reasonable at one moment and so irrational the next. Emotions can be experienced and deployed intelligently and skillfully or not so intelligently and skillfully (Goleman, 2005). The skill that allows one to understand, deploy and use emotions is called emotional intelligence (Goleman,

The Emotional Skills Assessment Process (ESAP-I) will focus on the variables that comprise emotional intelligence. The Emotional Skills Assessment Process (ESAP-I) will generate data that could bring light to any discrepancies. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) assesses leadership competencies and enables the participants to gain insight on how they are viewed as leaders within the organization. The hypothesis and the null hypothesis attempt to address the specific emotional intelligence skills that contribute to transformational leadership. The following research question and hypotheses will be dealt with in the research:

RQ1. To what extent is a leader’s style predicted by emotional intelligence skills after controlling for age, gender and years of experience?

RQ2. Which subcomponents of EI are most strongly associated with each subcomponent of transformational leadership?

RQ3: What EI skills if any are significantly associated with effective leadership as measured by each subcomponent of the MLQ’s Outcome of

The measurements used to execute this study have been tested for validity and reliability. The flaws identified include (a) there was no causal relationship between variables used in the survey and (b) the diverse cultural aspects were not taken into consideration. The study results relate to the proposed topic, in that the results indicated a moderating role of creative self-efficacy in the relationship between innovation climate and employee creativity. The proposed study will show the relationship between emotional intelligence skills with creative-self-efficacy behavior in a supportive innovation